Pricing of ApsaraDB RDS: billable items-ApsaraDB RDS(RDS)-阿里云帮助中心

The billable items for ApsaraDB RDS include RDS instance fees, value-added service fees, and fees for other related Alibaba Cloud services. This topic describes the definitions, billing formulas, and billing methods for these items.

You can use the RDS Price Calculator to estimate your RDS costs.

Note

The RDS Price Calculator supports cost estimation for only some billable items.

RDS instances

Based on the billing method, RDS instances are classified into two types:

Subscription or pay-as-you-go RDS instances: When you purchase this type of instance, you must specify the compute resources and storage capacity. After the purchase, you are charged for the RDS instance type and storage capacity.
Serverless instances automatically scale their compute resources within a specified range based on your workload and their storage capacity based on your data volume. You are charged for RCUs and storage capacity.

When you purchase a subscription or pay-as-you-go RDS instance, you must specify the compute resources and storage capacity. You are then billed for the RDS instance type and storage capacity.

RDS instance type

Category	Description
Definition	Fees for the compute resource specifications of subscription or pay-as-you-go RDS instances. This includes regular instances, read-only instances, disaster recovery instances.The billable item is named RDS Instance Type (rds_class) or Instance Type (ClassCode). After you create an instance, fees are generated for this billable item. An increase or decrease in the instance's compute resource specifications or number of nodes typically changes the fees for this item.
Billing formula	Basic Edition and High-availability Edition: RDS instance type fee = Unit price of the instance type × Duration Cluster Edition: RDS instance type fee = Unit price per node × Number of nodes × Duration Note The unit price of an RDS instance type varies by region, database engine, and specifications. Refer to the product page and your bills for details.
Billing method	Subscription or pay-as-you-go.
Can be offset by savings plans or resource plans	Yes. Compute plans and general-purpose savings plans can offset the RDS instance type fees of pay-as-you-go instances.

RCU for serverless instances

Category	Description
Definition	Fees for the compute resources of a serverless RDS instance. The billable item is named RCU (rds_serverless_rcu). After you create a serverless instance, fees are generated for this billable item based on the actual RCU usage. If you pause the instance, billing for this item also pauses.
Billing formula	RCU fee = Unit price per RCU on a single node × RCU usage on a single node × Number of nodes × Duration RCU fee = Unit price per RCU × RCU usage × Duration Note For RCU unit prices, see , Serverless ApsaraDB RDS for PostgreSQL fees, or .
Billing method	Serverless.
Can be offset by savings plans or resource plans	Yes. Elastic (Special Offer) savings plans and general-purpose savings plans can offset the RCU fees of serverless RDS instances.

Storage capacity

Category	Description
Definition	Fees for the storage capacity of subscription, pay-as-you-go, or serverless RDS instances. This includes regular instances, read-only instances, and disaster recovery instances. The billable item is named Storage Capacity (rds_storage or Storage). After you create an instance, fees are generated for this billable item. An increase or decrease in the instance's storage capacity changes the fees for this item.
Billing formula	Subscription or pay-as-you-go Basic Edition and High-availability Edition instances: Storage capacity fee = Unit price of instance storage × Instance storage capacity × Duration Subscription or pay-as-you-go Cluster Edition instances: Storage capacity fee = Unit price of storage per node × Storage capacity per node × Number of nodes × Duration instances: Storage capacity fee = Unit price of storage per node × Storage capacity per node × Number of nodes × Duration Storage capacity fee = Unit price of instance storage × Instance storage capacity × Duration Note The unit price of RDS storage capacity varies by region, product series, storage type, and billing method. The price displayed in the console prevails. The duration in the formula varies based on the billing method. For subscription instances, the duration is the subscription duration. For pay-as-you-go or serverless instances, the duration is the billable hours. The billing cycle is 1 hour.
Billing method	Subscription, pay-as-you-go, and serverless.
Can be offset by savings plans or resource plans	Yes. Storage plans can offset the storage capacity fees of pay-as-you-go RDS instances, excluding instances that use premium performance disks and standard SSDs. General-purpose savings plans can offset the storage capacity fees of pay-as-you-go and serverless RDS instances. Elastic (Special Offer) savings plans can offset the storage capacity fees of serverless RDS instances.

RDS value-added services

RDS value-added services are paid features. You are charged for these features only after you enable or use them. The billable product for RDS value-added services is ApsaraDB RDS.

I/O burst for premium performance disks

Category	Description
Definition	Fees for the I/O burst usage of an RDS instance that uses premium performance disks. Enabling the I/O burst feature is free. However, after it is enabled, if the I/O burst usage exceeds the free quota, fees are generated for the billable item named I/O Burst (io_burst). For more information, see I/O burst for ApsaraDB RDS for PostgreSQL.
Billing formula	I/O burst fee for premium performance disks = (Total I/O burst usage of all nodes in the instance - Free quota) × Unit price of I/O burst × Duration Note For the total I/O burst usage of all nodes, free quota, and unit price of I/O burst, see , Billing of I/O burst for ApsaraDB RDS for PostgreSQL, or .
Billing method	Pay-as-you-go.
Can be offset by savings plans or resource plans	No.

Premium performance disk data archiving

Category	Description
Definition	Fees for the archived data volume of an RDS instance that uses premium performance disks. Enabling data archiving is free. However, after it is enabled, data archived to Object Storage Service (OSS) incurs OSS bucket (rds_oss_storage) fees. For more information, see Data archiving for ApsaraDB RDS for PostgreSQL.
Billing formula	Premium performance disk data archiving fee = Archived data volume × Unit price of data archiving × Duration Note For the unit price of data archiving, see , Billing of data archiving for ApsaraDB RDS for PostgreSQL, or .
Billing method	Pay-as-you-go.
Can be offset by savings plans or resource plans	No.

Regular and archived backups

Regular backup storage

Category	Description
Definition	Data and log backups are stored in the backup space provided by Alibaba Cloud. Alibaba Cloud offers a free backup quota. If your backup storage exceeds the free quota, the excess amount is billed on a pay-as-you-go basis. The billable item is named RDS Basic Backup Fee (backup_charged). For more information, see Back up ApsaraDB RDS for PostgreSQL data.
Billable product	Relational database.
Billing formula	Backup storage fee = (Total backup size - Free backup quota) × Unit price of backup storage × Duration Note Free backup quota if storage compression is disabled: The free quota for cloud disk instances is 200% of the storage capacity. The free quota for instances with Premium Local SSDs is 50% of the storage capacity. Free quota for backup storage if the storage compression feature is enabled: The free quota for cloud disk instances is 400% of the storage capacity. The free quota for instances with Premium Local SSDs is 100% of the storage capacity. For the unit price of backup storage, see , ApsaraDB RDS for PostgreSQL backup fees, , or . To reduce backup costs and size, see , , Reduce ApsaraDB RDS for PostgreSQL backup costs, or .
Billing method	Pay-as-you-go.
Can be offset by savings plans or resource plans	Yes. Storage plans can offset the excess backup storage fees for subscription or pay-as-you-go RDS instances, excluding instances that use premium performance disks and standard SSDs. General-purpose savings plans can offset the backup storage fees of subscription, pay-as-you-go, and serverless RDS instances.

Note

The billable items for cross-region backups are billed under the ApsaraDB and Database Backup products. For more information, see Data disaster recovery: cross-region backup, backup storage for deleted instances, and backup download.
backup downloads are billed under the Database Backup product. For more information, see Data disaster recovery: cross-region backup, backup storage for deleted instances, and backup download.

Full restoration and regular database and table restoration

Restore full data (clone instance)

When you restore data to a new instance using the data and log backups of the original instance, you are charged for the new instance's RDS instance type and storage capacity.

For more information, see Restore PostgreSQL data.

Regular database and table restoration

When you restore specific databases or tables to a new instance from a backup set or to a point in time, you are charged for the new instance's RDS instance type and storage capacity. No fees are charged if you restore the data to the original instance.

There is no charge for restoring specific databases or tables to the original instance from a backup set or to a point in time.

For more information, see or Restore ApsaraDB RDS for PostgreSQL databases and tables.

SQL Audit (DAS Enterprise Edition V0)

Category	Description
Definition	Storage fees for SQL audit logs. After you enable SQL Audit, you are billed based on the storage space occupied by the SQL audit logs and the storage duration. The billable item is named SQL Audit (sql_collected). For more information, see , , or SQL Explorer and Audit for ApsaraDB RDS for PostgreSQL.
Billable product	Relational database.
Billing formula	SQL Audit fee = Unit price × Storage space × Duration Note For the unit price of SQL Audit, see , Billing, or .
Billing method	Pay-as-you-go.
Can be offset by savings plans or resource plans	Yes. Storage plans and general-purpose savings plans can offset the DAS Enterprise Edition V0 SQL Audit fees for pay-as-you-go and subscription RDS instances.

Note

For the SQL Explorer and Audit feature provided by DAS Enterprise Edition V3, V2, or V1, the billable product is Database Autonomy Service. For more information, see DAS: SQL Explorer and Audit.

Database proxy

Category	Description
Definition	Fees for the database proxy. When you enable the database proxy and select Dedicated as the proxy type, you are billed based on the proxy specifications and usage duration. The billable item is named Number of database proxy instance shards (MaxscaleChargedSliceNum). General-purpose database proxies are free. For more information, see or Database proxy for ApsaraDB RDS for PostgreSQL. Note For questions, feedback, or discussions about using the RDS database proxy, join the user DingTalk group (106730000316).
Billing formula	Database proxy fee = Unit price × Number of proxies × Duration Note For the unit price of database proxies, see or Dedicated proxy pricing.
Billing method	Pay-as-you-go.
Can be offset by savings plans or resource plans	Yes. Compute plans and general-purpose savings plans can offset the database proxy specification fees for RDS instances with defined specifications.

Public endpoint traffic

If you apply for and use a public endpoint to connect to your RDS instance, outbound traffic over the Internet is generated. Currently, both inbound and outbound traffic over the Internet for connecting to an RDS instance using a public endpoint is free of charge.

For more information, see , , Enable or disable the public endpoint for an ApsaraDB RDS for PostgreSQL instance, or .

Services and billing from other Alibaba Cloud products

RDS integrates services from other Alibaba Cloud products. When you use the following features, billable items from other Alibaba Cloud products are generated.

Data disaster recovery: cross-region backup, backup storage for deleted instances, and backup download

Cross-region backup

Category	Description
Definition	Cross-region backups incur backup storage fees and network fees. The billable items are as follows: Geo-redundant storage (DdrOssStorageSize) and cross-region backup network traffic (NetworkOutDuplicationSize). For more information, see Cross-region backup for SQL Server.
Billable product	Geo-redundancy (DdrOssStorageSize): ApsaraDB. Cross-region backup network traffic (NetworkOutDuplicationSize): Database Backup.
Billing formula	Geo-redundancy fee = Unit price of geo-redundancy × Geo-redundancy storage size × Duration Cross-region backup network fee = Unit price of network traffic × Traffic usage Note For the unit price of geo-redundancy, see , Cross-region backup for ApsaraDB RDS for PostgreSQL, or . For the unit price of network traffic, see Network fees or .
Billing method	Pay-as-you-go.
Can be offset by savings plans or resource plans	This is supported. RDS storage plans and general-purpose savings plans can be used to offset the Geo-redundancy (DdrOssStorageSize) fees for subscription or pay-as-you-go ApsaraDB RDS for MySQL with Premium Local SSDs, RDS SQL Server, and RDS PostgreSQL instances. DBS network plans can offset the fees for Cross-region backup network traffic (NetworkOutDuplicationSize) from subscription or pay-as-you-go RDS instances.

Download backup

Category	Description
Definition	Fees generated when you download RDS instance backups. This includes outbound traffic over Internet (NetworkOutSize) fees and backup calculation data volume (BackupAnalyticSize) fees when using the Advanced Download feature. For more information, see , , or Download ApsaraDB RDS for PostgreSQL backups.
Billable product	Database Backup.
Billing formula	Backup calculation data volume fee = Unit price × Backup calculation data volume Outbound traffic over Internet fee = Unit price × (Traffic usage - Free quota) Note For the unit price of backup calculation data volume (also called the backup conversion fee unit price) and the unit price for outbound traffic over the Internet generated by downloading backups, see Download backups.
Billing method	Pay-as-you-go.
Can be offset by savings plans or resource plans	DBS network plans can offset the outbound traffic over Internet (NetworkOutSize) fees for subscription or pay-as-you-go RDS instances.

DAS: SQL Explorer and Audit

The billable items for DAS Enterprise Edition V3, V2, and V1 are billed under the Database Autonomy Service product. You cannot use RDS savings plans or resource plans to offset these fees.

Billing details

DAS Agent

Chinese mainland regions

Edition	Max managed instances	Max agents	Character usage	Concurrency limit	List price
Basic Edition (formerly Personal Edition)	10	1	Billed monthly with overage charges.	1	CNY 99/month. Includes a 100,000-character usage quota. Usage that exceeds the quota is billed at CNY 0.001 per character.
Enterprise Edition	20	Unlimited	Unlimited usage	3	CNY 10,000/month
	40			3	CNY 20,000/month
	60			3	CNY 30,000/month
	80			3	CNY 40,000/month
	100			3	CNY 50,000/month
	200			3	CNY 100,000/month
	300			3	CNY 150,000/month
	400			3	CNY 200,000/month
	500			5	CNY 250,000/month
	600			5	CNY 300,000/month
	700			5	CNY 350,000/month
	800			5	CNY 400,000/month
	900			5	CNY 450,000/month
	1000			5	CNY 500,000/month

Other regions

Edition	Max managed instances	Max agents	Character usage	Concurrency limit	List price
Basic Edition (formerly Personal Edition)	10	1	Billed monthly with overage charges.	1	CNY 199/month. Includes a 100,000-character usage quota. Usage that exceeds the quota is billed at CNY 0.001 per character.
Enterprise Edition	20	Unlimited	Unlimited usage	3	CNY 15,000/month
	40			3	CNY 30,000/month
	60			3	CNY 45,000/month
	80			3	CNY 60,000/month
	100			3	CNY 75,000/month
	200			3	CNY 150,000/month
	300			3	CNY 225,000/month
	400			3	CNY 300,000/month
	500			5	CNY 375,000/month
	600			5	CNY 450,000/month
	700			5	CNY 525,000/month
	800			5	CNY 600,000/month
	900			5	CNY 675,000/month
	1000			5	CNY 750,000/month

Monthly fee for the Basic Edition
- The monthly fee includes a usage quota of 100,000 characters. Unused characters are cleared at the end of the month and cannot be rolled over to the next month or refunded.
- If you unsubscribe early, the monthly fee is refunded on a pro-rata basis, deducting the cost for the days the service was used. For example, in the China (Shanghai) region, if the monthly fee is CNY 99, the month has 30 days, and you have used the service for 10 days, you will receive a refund of CNY 66 upon unsubscription.
- The character count in DAS Agent includes all characters in questions, answers, and O&M reports, such as Chinese characters, English letters, punctuation marks, line feeds, and other special characters. For example, the statement "DB instance rm-123 is healthy." contains 30 characters.
- To provide a "What You See Is What You Get" (WYSIWYG) experience, DAS Agent uses character-based billing instead of token-based metering. For example, when you ask if an instance is abnormal, DAS Agent may check multiple metrics, such as CPU utilization, I/O, queries per second (QPS), transactions per second (TPS), and memory. It may also review slow SQL lists, lock analysis results, and even security risk detection results. The agent's inference determines the specific checks performed, which typically cover these common issue types. This process can consume a large number of tokens. If an issue is found, the response can be thousands of characters long. If no issues are found, the response can be as short as "This instance has no exceptions in its current state," which contains 14 characters. To provide a more intuitive understanding of usage, we bill by the number of characters in the Q&A. A typical Q&A session for SQL optimization or CPU utilization anomaly diagnosis consumes about 1,000 to 5,000 characters. An O&M report consumes about 5,000 characters. The CNY 99 monthly fee covers approximately 15 to 50 diagnoses or reports, depending on the complexity of the Q&A. You can view the character usage of each historical conversation or O&M report on the DAS Agent details page.
Concurrency limit: The number of concurrent Q&A sessions that can run under your user ID (UID). DAS Agent generates O&M reports asynchronously during O&M windows, so these reports are not subject to the concurrency limit. As Model Studio and DAS Agent evolve, their tokens per minute (TPM), the time required for a diagnosis, and the response length may change. The concurrency limit may be adjusted in the future. Any such adjustments will be announced.

O&M service (formerly Economy Edition)

Pricing: CNY 150/month/instance

Note

Promotional price: CNY 50/month/instance

Security services

Billable item	Billing object	Specification	Pricing	Description
Security management (SecurityManagement_Amount)	Number of instances	Unlimited	CNY 80/instance/month	The security management feature provides a comprehensive database security solution. It unifies management of SSL certificates and allow lists and uses automated security baseline checks to continuously detect configuration risks, such as weak passwords and insecure backup or audit settings. This improves the security posture of your databases. Each instance consumes one security management quota.
Sensitive data detection (DCG_Amount)	Number of database tables (X)	0 to 50,000	CNY 400 per 10,000 tables/month	Each table scanned by a detection task consumes one quota. The quota is consumed upon use and does not roll over to the next month. The unit price decreases as your usage increases. Tip: You receive a complimentary quota for 100 table scans to help you get started.
		60,000 to 100,000	CNY 300 per 10,000 tables/month
		110,000 to 500,000	CNY 200 per 10,000 tables/month
		510,000 or more	CNY 100 per 10,000 tables/month
Column encryption (CLE_Amount)	Number of database columns (Y)	5	CNY 2,688/month	You can encrypt columns identified as containing sensitive data. Encrypting a column consumes one quota. Decrypting a column restores the quota. The unit price decreases as your usage increases.
		10	CNY 3,688/month
		15	CNY 4,680/month
		20	CNY 5,688/month
		25	CNY 6,688/month
		30	CNY 7,680/month
		35	CNY 8,680/month
		40	CNY 9,688/month
		45	CNY 10,665/month
		50	CNY 11,688/month
		51 to 100	CNY 156.88/column/month
		101 to 200	CNY 88.44/column/month
		201 to 300	CNY 65.6/column/month
		301 to 400	CNY 54.22/column/month
		401 to 500	CNY 47.37/column/month
		501 to 600	CNY 42.81/column/month
		601 to 700	CNY 39.55/column/month
		701 to 800	CNY 37.11/column/month
		801 to 900	CNY 35.2/column/month
		901 to 1,000	CNY 33.68/column/month
		More than 1,000	CNY 25/column/month

Audit log (NoSQL compatible)

Public cloud

Billable item	Billing method	Daily unit price	Description
log traffic	pay-as-you-go	CNY 0.24/GB	Default fee. This pay-as-you-go fee applies when logs are ingested into storage and covers basic processes like collection, transmission, and writing.
cold storage		CNY 0.00625/GB/hour	Default fee. Cold storage fees are based on log volume and storage duration. If hot storage is disabled, all logs incur cold storage fees. If you enable hot storage: New logs are first stored in hot storage, incurring the hot storage fee for that period. After the hot storage period expires, the system automatically moves the data to cold storage at no extra cost.
log indexing		CNY 0.24/GB	This fee applies when you enable the log indexing feature. The system stores indexed log data in hot storage. The system automatically adapts and creates optimized indexes to improve data read speed.
hot storage		CNY 0.008/GB/hour	Hot storage fees are based on log volume and storage duration. After the hot storage period expires, the system automatically moves the data to cold storage at no extra cost. Hot storage retains logs for a maximum of 7 days.

Billing example

Audit Log (NoSQL Compatible) provides features such as log queries, online analysis, and data exports. It helps security auditors quickly detect unusual data operations and identify who made changes and when. It also helps business systems meet security and compliance requirements and assists developers and O&M engineers in troubleshooting performance issues.

Suppose your instance ingests 10 GB of log data daily. You set the Select the storage duration of SQL logs. to 180 days, enable log indexing, and configure a hot storage period of 7 days for performance troubleshooting.

Note

The SQL Log Storage Duration is the total retention period for your SQL logs, which are stored in cold storage by default.
To meet compliance regulations in the Chinese mainland, the cold storage period must be at least 180 days.

Feature	Billable item	Daily unit price	Daily usage	Daily fee
SQL logs	log traffic	CNY 0.24/GB	10 GB	CNY 2.4
SQL logs	cold storage	CNY 0.00625/GB/hour	Day 1: 10 GB Day 2: 20 GB ... Day 173: 1,730 GB	10 * (180 - 7) * 0.00625 * 24 = CNY 259.5
log indexing	log indexing	CNY 0.24/GB	10 GB	CNY 2.4
log indexing	hot storage	CNY 0.008/GB/hour	After enabling the feature: Day 1: 10 GB Day 2: 20 GB ... Day 7: 70 GB (After 7 days, data in hot storage expires and is moved to cold storage.)	Daily fee from Day 7 onward: 10 * 7 * 0.008 * 24 = CNY 13.44

Note

The type of audit log records affects the volume of stored logs and their associated fees. You can customize the configuration after you enable this feature.

Enterprise Edition V3

Important

To meet the backup and recovery requirements for database audit logs required by regulations such as GDPR and China's Multi-Level Protection Scheme (MLPS), Enterprise Edition V3 enhances long-term storage (180 days or more) with multi-AZ backup, accidental deletion recovery, and long-term retention features.

Billing

Public cloud

Billable item	Billing method	Pricing in the Chinese mainland	Pricing in Hong Kong (China) and other regions	Description
Log traffic (DataIngestion)	pay-as-you-go	CNY 0.24/GB	CNY 0.36/GB	Default fee. This fee is for the volume of data ingested, covering collection, transmission, and writing to storage.
Log indexing (RealTimeSearchAnalytics)		CNY 0.24/GB	CNY 0.36/GB	This fee applies when you enable log indexing. Data for log indexing is stored in hot storage, where the system automatically creates optimized indexes to accelerate data reads. After logs are ingested into hot storage, no storage fee is charged for the first day.
SQL Explorer (InsightAnalysis)		CNY 0.08/GB	CNY 0.12/GB	This fee is charged based on the amount of log data processed by SQL Explorer for automatic aggregation and analysis.
Hot storage (SqlInsightHotDataSize)		CNY 0.01/GB/day	CNY 0.015/GB/day	The fee for hot storage is charged based on log volume and storage duration. After logs are ingested into hot storage, no storage fee is charged for the first day. If you enable cold storage, logs are automatically moved from hot storage to cold storage for free when the hot storage period expires. Logs can be stored in hot storage for a maximum of 7 days.
Cold storage (SqlInsightColdDataSize)		CNY 0.003/GB/day	CNY 0.0045/GB/day	Default fee. The fee for cold storage is charged based on log volume and storage duration. If hot storage is not enabled, logs are stored only in cold storage. No storage fee is charged for the first 30 days. If you enable hot storage: Newly ingested logs are first stored in hot storage (free for the first day). You are charged for hot storage for the duration of (`Hot storage duration - 1 day`). After the hot storage period expires, logs are automatically moved to cold storage free of charge. No fee is charged during the subsequent cold storage period of (`30 days - Hot storage duration`).
Cold query (SqlScanDataSize)		CNY 0.015/GB	CNY 0.0225/GB	This fee is based on the volume of data scanned during offline queries on logs in cold storage.
Download (Free)		CNY 0.0/GB	CNY 0.0/GB	This feature is in public preview and is free of charge. This fee for exporting or dumping data is waived during the public preview.
Security audit (SecurityAudit)		CNY 0.48/GB	CNY 0.72/GB	When you use the new version of security audit, you are billed based on either a minimum charge (CNY 0.4125/hour/instance) or the volume of logs processed, whichever is higher. Note If the fee calculated based on your actual log volume exceeds the minimum charge, you are billed for the log volume. Otherwise, the minimum charge applies. To view security audit bills, select AI-Native Database Service for Product Name and select Database Security Agent for Commodity Name.
Redacted log delivery (PSQLDelivery)		CNY 0.8/GB	CNY 1.2/GB	When you use redacted log delivery, you are billed based on either a minimum charge (CNY 9.9/day) or the volume of logs processed, whichever is higher. Note If the fee calculated based on your actual log volume exceeds the minimum charge, you are billed for the log volume. Otherwise, the minimum charge applies.
Insights delivery (InsightDelivery)		CNY 0.42/hour	CNY 0.63/hour	This fee is charged per hour when you use insights delivery.

Alibaba Gov Cloud and Finance Cloud

Billable item	Billing method	Alibaba Gov Cloud pricing	Finance Cloud pricing	Description
Log traffic (DataIngestion)	pay-as-you-go	CNY 0.48/GB	CNY 0.456/GB	Default fee. This fee is for the volume of data ingested, covering collection, transmission, and writing to storage.
Log indexing (RealTimeSearchAnalytics)		CNY 0.48/GB	CNY 0.456/GB	This fee applies when you enable log indexing. Data for log indexing is stored in hot storage, where the system automatically creates optimized indexes to accelerate data reads. After logs are ingested into hot storage, no storage fee is charged for the first day.
SQL Explorer (InsightAnalysis)		CNY 0.16/GB	CNY 0.152/GB	This fee is charged based on the amount of log data processed by SQL Explorer for automatic aggregation and analysis.
Hot storage (SqlInsightHotDataSize)		CNY 0.02/GB/day	CNY 0.019/GB/day	The fee for hot storage is charged based on log volume and storage duration. After logs are ingested into hot storage, no storage fee is charged for the first day. If you enable cold storage, logs are automatically moved from hot storage to cold storage for free when the hot storage period expires. Logs can be stored in hot storage for a maximum of 7 days.
Cold storage (SqlInsightColdDataSize)		CNY 2/GB/month. Overage is billed at CNY 0.096/GB/day.	CNY 0.0057/GB/day	Default fee. The fee for cold storage is charged based on log volume and storage duration. If hot storage is not enabled, logs are stored only in cold storage. No fee is charged for the first 30 days. If you enable hot storage: Newly ingested logs are first stored in hot storage (free for the first day). You are charged for hot storage for the duration of (`Hot storage duration - 1 day`). After the hot storage period expires, logs are automatically moved to cold storage free of charge. No fee is charged during the subsequent cold storage period of (`30 days - Hot storage duration`).
Cold query (SqlScanDataSize)		CNY 0.03/GB	CNY 0.0285/GB	This fee is based on the volume of data scanned during offline queries on logs in cold storage.
Download (Free)		CNY 0.0/GB	CNY 0.0/GB	This feature is in public preview and is free of charge. This fee for exporting or dumping data is waived during the public preview.
Security audit (SecurityAudit)		CNY 0.96/GB	CNY 0.912/GB	When you use the new version of security audit, you are billed based on either a minimum charge (CNY 0.4125/hour/instance) or the volume of logs processed, whichever is higher. Note If the fee calculated based on your actual log volume exceeds the minimum charge, you are billed for the log volume. Otherwise, the minimum charge applies. To view security audit bills, select AI-Native Database Service for Product Name and select Database Security Agent for Commodity Name.

Billing examples

The following examples show how fees are calculated for different use cases and selected features.

Operations and maintenance

In this scenario, you can perform full SQL log recording and cluster analysis to quickly query, locate, and analyze problematic SQL statements for emergency response and in-depth optimization. For more information, see SQL Explorer and Audit. The following table shows the features that you can enable in this scenario.

Assume your instance ingests 10 GB of data daily, and you set the SQL logs retention period to 30 days and the Log Index hot storage duration to 7 days.

Note

The SQL Log Storage Duration is the total retention period for your SQL logs. By default, logs are stored in cold storage. In this scenario, because you enabled log indexing, new logs are first stored in hot storage for 7 days and then moved to cold storage for the remaining 23 days.

Feature	Billable item	Unit price	Daily usage	Daily fee
SQL logs	Log traffic (DataIngestion)	CNY 0.24/GB	10 GB	CNY 2.4
SQL logs	Cold storage (SqlInsightColdDataSize)	CNY 1/GB/month	From the day logs are moved to cold storage: Day 1: 10 GB Day 2: 20 GB ... Day 23: 230 GB	CNY 0 (Cold storage is free for the first 30 days.)
Log indexing	Log indexing (RealTimeSearchAnalytics)	CNY 0.24/GB	10 GB	CNY 2.4
Log indexing	Hot storage (SqlInsightHotDataSize)	CNY 0.01/GB/day	After enabling: Day 1: 10 GB Day 2: 20 GB ... Day 7: 70 GB (After 7 days, expired hot data is moved to cold storage.)	Total fee for storing one 10 GB batch for 7 days: 10 × (7 - 1) × 0.01 = CNY 0.6 (The first day of hot storage is free.)
SQL Explorer	SQL Explorer (InsightAnalysis)	CNY 0.08/GB	10 GB	CNY 0.8

Audit and compliance

This scenario provides bank-grade security and compliance features that meet regulatory requirements in the Chinese mainland by offering transparent, long-term monitoring of database activities.

Assume your instance has a daily data ingestion of 1 GB. You set the SQL logs retention period to 180 days to meet compliance regulations in the Chinese mainland.

Note

The SQL Log Storage Duration is the total retention period for your SQL Log. By default, logs are stored in cold storage.
To meet compliance regulations in the Chinese mainland, the cold storage period must be at least 180 days.

You purchase a 100 GB storage disk for CNY 100/month.
With a daily data ingestion of 1 GB, the storage disk fills up after 100 days. From day 101, the system continues to write logs and bills you for the overage.
1. On day 101, a total of 101 GB of logs are stored. The pay-as-you-go fee for the 1 GB overage is 1 GB × CNY 0.048 = CNY 0.048.
2. On day 102, a total of 102 GB of logs are stored. The pay-as-you-go fee for the 2 GB overage is 2 GB × CNY 0.048 = CNY 0.096.
3. ... On day 180, a total of 180 GB of logs are stored. The pay-as-you-go fee for the 80 GB overage is 80 GB × CNY 0.048 = CNY 3.84.
4. After 180 days, older logs begin to expire and are purged. The storage usage stabilizes at 180 GB, and the daily pay-as-you-go fee for the 80 GB overage remains at CNY 3.84.
Because a 100 GB storage disk costs only CNY 100 per month, purchasing additional disk capacity is more cost-effective than paying overage fees. We recommend expanding your disk capacity in advance based on your usage forecast.

Enterprise Edition V2

Public cloud

Billable item	Billing method	Chinese mainland, Malaysia (Kuala Lumpur), and Indonesia (Jakarta) pricing	Hong Kong (China) and Singapore pricing	Description
Hot storage (SqlInsightHotDataSize)	Pay-as-you-go	CNY 0.01/GB/hour	CNY 0.015/GB/hour	Data is stored on high-performance devices for query acceleration and SQL aggregation. `SQL Explorer` and `audit data` from the last 7 days use the `hot storage` tier.
Cold storage (SqlInsightColdDataSize)		CNY 0.00125/GB/hour	CNY 0.001875/GB/hour	Data is stored on low-cost devices to reduce usage costs. The system automatically moves `SQL Explorer` and `audit data` older than 7 days from `hot storage` to `cold storage`. Queries on `cold storage` data are slower than queries on `hot storage` data.
Data query fee (SqlScanDataSize)		CNY 0.2/GB	CNY 0.3/GB	A pay-as-you-go `data query fee` is charged for querying data in `cold storage`.
Security audit (SecurityAudit)		CNY 0.48/GB	CNY 0.72/GB	Optional. You can enable or disable this feature at any time. For the new version of `security audit`, you are billed for the greater of the `log volume` cost or a `minimum consumption` fee of CNY 0.4125/hour/instance. Note The `minimum consumption` fee applies unless the usage-based fee for your `log volume` is higher. To view security audit bills, select AI-Native Database Service for Product Name and select Database Security Agent for Commodity Name.

Enterprise Edition V1 and V0

Important

Only Enterprise Edition V1 is billed on a subscription basis.

Public cloud

Billable item	Billing method	Pricing	Description
Subscription fee	subscription	CNY 40/instance/month	The number of billable instances is your Enterprise Edition V1 quota, which is the total number of database instances eligible for DAS Professional Edition V1. For example, if your Enterprise Edition V1 quota is 3 and you have enabled DAS Professional Edition for 1 database instance, your subscription fee for DAS Professional Edition is `CNY 40/month × 3 = CNY 120/month`. Note If the number of database instances on which you have enabled Enterprise Edition V1 is less than your purchased quota, you can reduce the quota to lower your costs. For more information, see Manage Enterprise Edition V1. Only Enterprise Edition V1 is billed on a subscription basis.
Storage fee for SQL Explorer (sql_storage_used)	pay-as-you-go	Free quota: 5 GB of storage. Important The free storage quota is available only for Enterprise Edition V1. Overage fee: CNY 0.008/GB/hour.	Pricing for the Chinese mainland, Malaysia (Kuala Lumpur), and Indonesia (Jakarta).
Storage fee for SQL Explorer (sql_storage_used)		Free quota: 3 GB of storage. Important The free storage quota is available only for Enterprise Edition V1. Overage fee: CNY 0.0122/GB/hour.	Pricing for Hong Kong (China) and Singapore.
Security audit (SecurityAudit)		Chinese mainland: CNY 0.48/GB. Hong Kong (China) and other regions: CNY 0.72/GB.	Optional. You can enable or disable this feature separately. When you use the new security audit feature, you are billed based on either a minimum charge (CNY 0.4125/hour/instance) or the volume of logs processed, whichever is higher. Note If the fee calculated based on your actual log volume exceeds the minimum charge, you are billed for the log volume. Otherwise, the minimum charge applies. To view security audit bills, select AI-Native Database Service for Product Name and select Database Security Agent for Commodity Name.

Alibaba Gov Cloud and Finance Cloud

Billable item	Billing method	Pricing	Description
Subscription fee	subscription	CNY 80/instance/month	The number of billable instances is the total number of database instances eligible for DAS Professional Edition, as configured on the purchase page. For example, if the total number of database instances eligible for DAS Professional Edition is 3, and you have enabled it for 1 instance, the subscription fee for DAS Professional Edition is `CNY 80/month × 3 = CNY 240/month`. Important Only Enterprise Edition V1 is billed on a subscription basis.
Storage fee for SQL Explorer (sql_storage_used)	pay-as-you-go	Alibaba Gov Cloud: CNY 0.016/GB/hour Finance Cloud: CNY 0.0152/GB/hour	None
Security audit (SecurityAudit)	pay-as-you-go	Alibaba Gov Cloud: CNY 0.96/GB Finance Cloud: CNY 0.96/GB	Optional. You can enable or disable this feature separately. For the new version of `security audit`, you are billed for the greater of the `log volume` cost or a `minimum consumption` fee of CNY 0.4125/hour/instance. Note The `minimum consumption` fee applies unless the usage-based fee for your `log volume` is higher. To view security audit bills, select AI-Native Database Service for Product Name and select Database Security Agent for Commodity Name.